Missouri 34 Alphabetical order State, Town name and Newspaper name Update 07July 2013 Correction of 1808 – that year is really 1898 Missouri - 34 Missouri - Canton Missouri – Cape Girardeau Missouri – Cape Girardeau Missouri – Cape Girardeau Press-News Journal 82 issues Apr 6, 2006 - Apr 16, 2009... Continue Reading →
Newspaper of The United States – Google News Archive
Many people have asked about the Enhanced Newspaper collection for USA only so I decided to post the link on top of the blog home page. https://newspaperproject2012.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/table-of-states-2-sep-2017.pdf
How To Fix Tiny screen prints and photos
Don't you just hate seeing those tiny newspaper items on the family tree? I don't mean tiny as few words. I mean tiny as not cropped to fit the screen. I do not hate them because you cannot read them, because you can read them, if you click on them a couple of time, the... Continue Reading →
How to document news worthy incident that affects many families
On 21 Jun 1914 in Oswego, New York a boat crossing a canal capsized and twelve (12) people were drowned. The twelve (12) victims came from seven different families: Adams, Crane, Dainer, Mogg, Schultz, Tibbets and Welsh. I first saw the story in The Ludington Daily newspaper and thought it was an important family tree... Continue Reading →
Death on the tracks – 1930 news item
A tragic story in the newspaper can lead to helping others with their family trees. As readers of my blog know I review old newspaper to find obituaries, anniversaries, wedding and other interesting stories that I can build a family tree around and that I can share with the family of the person or persons... Continue Reading →
Alberto Castello – AP news and AP index cards – 1958
I saw this photo in a 1958 newspaper and thought I would do some research on his family. In my research I found a card catalog that I had never seen before: Associated Press Card Index to AP Stories So now I have one more place to look for old interesting newspaper stories. ================ Alberto... Continue Reading →
Abram Mckee Banks – obituary leads to knowledge
I came across an obit that had a photo on it and I took a screen print of it. I looked for a family tree to tell his relates about the obit and photo but I did not find a tree so I created a family tree for Abram, to hold his obit. I started adding... Continue Reading →
New York newspapers in Google News Archive collection plus one.
The above do not have links to the newspapers, it is just a sample. Open the pdf file shown below, to see the chart with links. New York 70 plus 1
Media Gallery – Ancestry dot com
As my readers know from past blog posts, I encourage genealogist to continue looking for newspaper items, even when nothing comes up in a search. I have found many items about the particular family members in the local newspaper once I found the initial item but I never realized how many items I had accumulated... Continue Reading →
Hungerford – in last will
In looking for 1830's news items about the Hungerford family I came across this interesting article about a "last will and testament", which is contained in a letter to the government of the USA. The newspapers are reporting from Washington DC and cite a letter that is being read to congress. It is interesting to... Continue Reading →
German Newspapers in USA
I was working on Face Book adding links to some genealogy group pages when I had an idea. Why not post the links to the German newspaper, I have on my Google News Archive Enhanced collection. I remember marking some newspapers as being published in German but I didn't know exactly in which states they... Continue Reading →
Small items in the news – Showvaker
Many times you will come across small items in the newspaper that help you with a name or a date; like this one. I did a search for the name "Showvaker" and one of the links got me to the page but not to the exact item. I had to hunt around the page... Continue Reading →
Pennsylvania Newspapers
Pennsylvania Newspapers on Google News Archive. Alphabetical order State, Town name and Newspaper name Corrected 02 May 2016 Pennsylvania - 83 Pennsylvania - Beaver Pennsylvania – Beaver Pennsylvania –Beaver Pennsylvania –Beaver Allegheny Times 732 issues Oct 2, 1988 - Jan 31, 2008 Beaver County Times 11,503 issues Nov 2, 1954 - Oct 31,... Continue Reading →
Old Newspaper links
I saw this link on a Michigan FaceBook genealogy group page and thought others would like to see it. https://www.cmich.edu/library/clarke/Pages/Michigan-Digital-Newspaper-Portal.aspx I will have to so some work on this and include only the free web sites. Maybe this will be my next project. Thank You.
1842 – Deaths in Washington DC newspaper
I posted the following on FaceBook: For my genealogy friends with relatives in the North East USA - 1842 newspaper has many deaths in various places in the newspaper not just in an Obit section: - look down the link and to the right for the death items: - Fatal Accident - James Ruddy -... Continue Reading →
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